Drill Baby Drill

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It is AMAZING, the gall. McCain's 'drill baby drill' wasn't mocked by the left during the campaign? Sheesh. He can do and say whatever he pleases and the left falls in line. 4 legs good, 2 legs better!

Pete

"Weeks later, Obama said he wanted a 'comprehensive energy policy' and 'if, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage -- I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.'"

I know it's not what we've become used to, but he really is doing exactly what he said he would do. Again.

[d-ray657]

It's amazing the Gall. The president does something that many conservatives are advocating, and the conservatives attack him for doing it. Kinda like going with a health care plan very similar to that enacted or proposed by Republicans, and being branded a socialist. I really don't understand the nerve of some people who bash the president for doing what they want.

Regards,

D-Ray

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

It's amazing the Gall. The president does something that many conservatives are advocating, and the conservatives attack him for doing it. Kinda like going with a health care plan very similar to that enacted or proposed by Republicans, and being branded a socialist. I really don't understand the nerve of some people who bash the president for doing what they want.

Regards,

D-Ray

Well, it's because he didn't step into the trap, Don. As a Dem, he was supposed to oppose ANY further domestic drilling, so they could lambaste him for it. That's whay we have this, "It's a smokescreen.", nonsense. It's all part of his sinister plot to not be what they are claiming he is. "Ha, ha! This is what he's going to do next!-----Uh, um, well, okay. It's a trick! He's doing what we would do in an effort to be like us, so that we'll think he's not something else! Yeah, that's it! Take that! Ha,ha!" (I picture Maj. Frank Burns.)

Regards,
Dave

[Charles]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

It's amazing the Gall. The president does something that many conservatives are advocating, and the conservatives attack him for doing it. Kinda like going with a health care plan very similar to that enacted or proposed by Republicans, and being branded a socialist. I really don't understand the nerve of some people who bash the president for doing what they want.

Regards,

D-Ray

I don't think the conservatives are complaining about him doing something they like, I think that they're complaining because he's attempting to create the APPEARANCE of doing something they like.

They're simply pointing that out.

Chas

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by Charles

I don't think the conservatives are complaining about him doing something they like, I think that they're complaining because he's attempting to create the APPEARANCE of doing something they like.

They're simply pointing that out.

Chas

Or he's doing EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO and they're sore because he's getting things done and they aren't.

[d-ray657]

By the way, Obama's taking his lumps from the left on this one too. I think we're seeing that he's doing much of what he advertised, but not what many on the left and right expected him to do.

I don't see him making offshore exploration the centerpiece of his energy policy, the way McPalin were advocating, but he's exploring (pun intended) all possible sources of relief from foreign oil dependence - in the long run. I also expect that the Texas oil companies aren't anticipating sweetheart deals, since they don't have one of their cronies in charge of the DOE.

Regards,

D-Ray

[rickr15]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

I also expect that the Texas oil companies aren't anticipating sweetheart deals, since they don't have one of their cronies in charge of the DOE.

Regards,

D-Ray

They made their money on the last election cycle. The largest profits in history I believe.
I'm told they were supposed to reinvest some of said cash windfall into alternate energy and new exploration.

I wonder how thats going? They been pretty quit since November.

[piece-itpete]

So you're actually on board with McCain/Palin, they were educated, pragmatic?

No change

Pete

[piece-itpete]

Missed a whole darn page!

McCain said it = bad. I don't recall Obama agreeing with him. Obama says it = good.

Come on. He just sold out the entire left. Again. For money.

Pete

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

So you're actually on board with McCain/Palin, they were educated, pragmatic?

No change

Pete

That's about like saying that Obama is on board with the religious right because he goes to church.

McCain used to have a hint of Pragmatism. Palin's modus operandi is more like opportunism. I don't think that either of them would understand what it is like to be intelligent.

Regards,

D-Ray